We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.